casadalloro
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I see in the sunday times mag there will be an episode touring Europe in "bargain priced" maseratis...could be interesting depending what they mean by bargain....
Totally agree
TV generally is pish poor now
Have you noticed a decline in quality from BBC1?
It is all soaps or Great British something or other
Sky is a none starter for me while the Dirty Digger is in charge
I don't know what Netflix is and Amazon have muscled in too
We again have sacrificed quality for quantity and it is in all walks of life. More is not necessarily better
Books and more books for me, I've turned the tv off over summer and tend to read for a few hours of an evening, not only is it relaxing it really helps with insomnia!
It's a bit of shock you can read and write if I am honest Phil. I assays thought you dictated your forum posts to your kids?
Testing for quality Matt ?
Having worked in media for around 10 years, I think you are all utterly wrong. TV has never been so good, the series available on Netflix, Amazon, Sky (Atlantic) is far superior to the garbage now on the BBC (mainly, there are exceptions). If you don't want to pay for Amazon/Sky/Netflix/Apple/NowTV you don't have to, you can wait for the box set or whatever. The fact that the BBC prosecute people who don't pay for a license fee, have a monopoly on news (most get their news from the website), have all the local radio stations, translate into all kinds of different languages etc and got rid of the cash cow (Top Gear) means I can not abide it. The sooner they lose the right to free money every year through taxation the better imo.
The trailer for GT on Amazon looks great, can't wait.
The BBC have the monopoly on making TV and radio that isn't hampered by adverts and can bulk social trends and . The monpolise news because they actually do it quite well. I'd rather watch (for example) BBC Breakfast than that Americanised rubbish on ITV, or Sky's News ticket syndrome. BBC provide programming that helps to maintain the historical cultures in these Isles, producing programs in Gaelic and Welsh, and many other things that would simply disappear.
As a parent of a 2 year old, I love that we can put CBeebies on and she can watch something educational, with a bit of diversity, that isn't all animated, or voiced by Americans, and isn't broken down by her pointing and screaming "I want that" for 25% of the time as they bombard and pollute her young, innocent and influential brain with adverts.
The day the BBC stop getting free money will be a sad one, and a day that this country would end up regretting.
There is a lot of truth in this, however, the world is moving away from single pricing for products which bears no correlation to usage.
The BBC should slim down to what it does well in public interest broadcasting and accept that it cannot compete with the money that the new entrants are sinking into big programmes. The licence fee should be abolished and budget funded directly but at a fraction of the current level which abandoning expensive programming will allow.
The adverts on pay TV do not bother me as I rarely watch anything live and just FF through them. The only really benefit of this with regard to the BBC is in radio given that you cannot FF through the commercial station adverts
for example listening to Radio Tay is deeply irritating.
Pot, kettle black from Matthew!
What a dimwit.....
Having worked in media for around 10 years, I think you are all utterly wrong. TV has never been so good, the series available on Netflix, Amazon, Sky (Atlantic) is far superior to the garbage now on the BBC.
It was meant as humour mate, thought you lot would have got that!